Wickliffe's company from Nelson, Hornbeck's of Bullitt, Moss's of Green, Kinson's of Adair, and Robertson's of Washington. Captain William R. McGary's company was subsequently added to the regiment, when the army had reached Portage.

About 1820, Colonel Renick removed to Missouri. The records in Barren County show numerous transfers of land after his leaving Barren, but do not indicate in what part of Missouri he resided.

He and Colonel Taul are the only colonels in the battle who sleep in death outside of Kentucky.

The material in the regiment of Colonel Renick was of the best class of men from Nelson, Green, and Bullitt, and were among the best fighting men who went into the campaign.

He was thrice elected to the legislature from Barren, in 1806-15-18.

COLONEL WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

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Colonel William Williams, who eleventh regiment, was born in Virginia on the 20th of March, 1788, and died in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1834. He lived on a farm about eight miles southwest of Richmond, on the line of the Kentucky Central, near Red House. He married Charlotte Reed, a woman of

great refinement and culture. Alexander Campbell, in his notes on Kentucky travel, says that Mrs. Williams was one of the most refined and cultured women he ever met. He was cashier of the first bank founded at Richmond, Kentucky. His funeral, which occurred in 1834, was one of the largest ever known in Madison County.

He was a man of splendid judgment and fine information, taking great interest in military matters, and it was to this he was indebted for his promotion from private to colonel. He volunteered as a private. He was first made major of the eleventh regiment, but subsequently, from some cause or other Colonel George R. C. Floyd failing to serve, Major Williams was appointed colonel of the regiment.

He was buried on the old family place near Red House, and his grave is unmarked.

JOHN DONALDSON.

(Originally Spelled Danneldson.)

John Donaldson was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1769. His father moved to Kentucky and settled in Clark County, near Strode's Station. The fort being besieged by the Indians, Colonel Donaldson's father, in passing by a port-hole while inside of the fort, was killed by a shot fired by an Indian through the hole.

His mother subsequently married Colonel John Fleming, for whom Fleming County and Flemingsburg, its county seat, were named, and who in 1790 established Fleming's Station.

Colonel Fleming engaged in the pursuit of the Indians who had attacked Strode's Station, and at Battle Run, near the Upper Blue Licks, in Fleming County, in an engagement with the Indians was badly wounded, but escaped almost miraculously. An Indian approached Colonel Fleming, supposing him to be badly wounded, and fired, but when he had reached a distance of some six or eight feet from him, Colonel Fleming shot him dead and the Indian lay on the opposite side of the log from which Colonel Fleming was lying. His mare, which was a favorite, came running up, and in response to her master's whistle she came to his side. Colonel Fleming was barely able to throw himself over her back like a bag, and was carried by the faithful animal out of the fight. Colonel Fleming died in 1794.

Colonel Donaldson represented Clark County in the legislature in 1803 and 1817.

He lived on the road between Paris and Winchester, about six miles from Winchester, owned a large farm there, and died in 1829. He was a general in the Kentucky militia.

Some fifteen years since his remains were removed to Flemingsburg and buried in the cemetery there. A headstone has been erected, on which is the following inscription:

Sacred to the memory of General John Donaldson, who was born in Berkley, Virginia, January 9th, A. D., 1769, and departed this life August 24th, A. D., 1829, aged sixty years, seven months and fifteen days. He was loved and respected, and died la

mented.

Clark County, where he was residing during the War of 1812, made a most magnificent record. The county sent twelve companies into that war. More than nine hundred men, at various times, volunteered from the county for service in that conflict.

Colonel Donaldson was a man of fine presence, great intelligence, and always exhibited the very highest patriotism.

COLONEL WILLIAM MONTJOY.

Colonel William Montjoy, who commanded the fourth regiment, was born in Stafford County, Virginia, April

29, 1774.

He represented Pendleton County in the Kentucky Senate in 1820-22-23, and was a member of the house of representatives in 1809. He died in Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky, February 17, 1823.

He settled in Pendleton County in 1795. He raised a company in Pendleton County upon the call of Governor Shelby, July 31, 1813.

In April, 1820, he was appointed by Governor Adair surveyor for Grant County, to which place he moved about 1817. His will, probated in 1823, is remarkable from the fact that he gave all his slaves their freedom within periods prescribed by that instrument.

He was one of the first settlers in Williamstown, and occupied one of the three houses in Williamstown in 1820, and kept a tavern at that place. He purchased a farm a short distance from Williamstown, on which place he resided at the time of his death. He is supposed to be buried in the old cemetery on the Covington and Lexington Pike, about two miles north of Williamstown. His grave, so far as can be known, is unmarked.

That he was patriotic is attested by the fact that he was among the first soldiers in Kentucky who volunteered in the War of 1812. In the early part of the war he served as a private, and was severely frostbitten in the Fort Wayne campaign. He was brave and patient, and possessed a high degree of courage.